The 10 minute IQ test

[Bob_Bytchin]

Ok, now you only have 10 minutes to take this test. So make sure to put down your pencil after 10 minutes. Just finish as many as you can.

1) What number is next in this series: 7, 12, 15, 16, x

2) A dump truck is heading north, at the velocity of the speed of light. There is a NW crosswind of 22mph. The dump truck is fully loaded with sand, and has 1/2 a tank of gas. What color is the dump truck?

3) You meet one of three sisters. You know that one of the sisters always tells the truth, one always lies, and the third tells the truth 50% of the time. What one question could you not ask a sister and not get the incorrect answer?

4) 2+2=6....please explain how.

5) You have a friend that has been blind all his/her life. Please explain how you would describe the color fuscia to him/her and actually have him/her understand.

6) Fission versus Fusion. Choose one, and explain why it's better for use in a lawn mower.

7) Which weighs more....100 tons of feathers, or 100 tons of bricks? Which would you rather have fall on you in a perfect vacuum?

8) If you were traveling down I-35 at the speed of light, at night, and suddenly realized your forgot to turn your headlights on, would it really matter?

Finished already? Congratulations.

 

[Guest]

1) What number is next in this series: 7, 12, 15, 16, x
y

2) A dump truck is heading north, at the velocity of the speed of light. There is a NW crosswind of 22mph. The dump truck is fully loaded with sand, and has 1/2 a tank of gas. What color is the dump truck?color of light

3) You meet one of three sisters. You know that one of the sisters always tells the truth, one always lies, and the third tells the truth 50% of the time. What one question could you not ask a sister and not get the incorrect answer?
Wanna fuck?

4) 2+2=6....please explain how.
Can't

5) You have a friend that has been blind all his/her life. Please explain how you would describe the color fuscia to him/her and actually have him/her understand.
I'm color blind

6) Fission versus Fusion. Choose one, and explain why it's better for use in a lawn mower.
I don't own a mower

7) Which weighs more....100 tons of feathers, or 100 tons of bricks? Which would you rather have fall on you in a perfect vacuum?
Neither are edible

8) If you were traveling down I-35 at the speed of light, at night, and suddenly realized your forgot to turn your headlights on, would it really matter?
No

Finished already? Congratulations.
Thanks

 

[penguindance]

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

I beleive that refusal to take the test is evidence of an extraordinarily high IQ

 

[Star At Sunrise]

Ok, now you only have 10 minutes to take this test. So make sure to put down your pencil after 10 minutes. Just finish as many as you can.

1) What number is next in this series: 7, 12, 15, 16, x 16.2

2) A dump truck is heading north, at the velocity of the speed of light. There is a NW crosswind of 22mph. The dump truck is fully loaded with sand, and has 1/2 a tank of gas. What color is the dump truck? Dark green with black trim.

3) You meet one of three sisters. You know that one of the sisters always tells the truth, one always lies, and the third tells the truth 50% of the time. What one question could you not ask a sister and not get the incorrect answer? Does this look infected to you?

4) 2+2=6....please explain how. If 2 = x, and x = 3, then 2 + 2 = 6

5) You have a friend that has been blind all his/her life. Please explain how you would describe the color fuscia to him/her and actually have him/her understand. Stick his/her hand into a boiling pot of water. Say "That's red." Then stick their hand in a freezer. Say, "That's blue." Then spread room temperature guacomole over their face. Say, "And that's fuscisa."

6) Fission versus Fusion. Choose one, and explain why it's better for use in a lawn mower. Good lord, fusion of course! But only cold fusion, unless you want your lawnmower to be twice as hot as the core of the Sun and to destroy your town within a 240 mile radius of your lawnmower. Sheesh! (Rolls eyes)

7) Which weighs more....100 tons of feathers, or 100 tons of bricks? Which would you rather have fall on you in a perfect vacuum? Hmm, probably the bricks, then I could build myself a brick shield to keep the feathers from hitting me. Then I could clean up the feathers using my perfect vacuum cleaner.

8) If you were traveling down I-35 at the speed of light, at night, and suddenly realized your forgot to turn your headlights on, would it really matter? On I-35 it would because there's a lot of jerk cops on that road.

Finished already? Congratulations.

Thanks! Gee! That was actually pretty easy! I must be really smart!

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

First of all, I get the whole thing about how we're not using pencils here, so we shouldn't have taken the test in the first place, and that THAT'S really the test. But I'm playing anyway.


1) What number is next in this series: 7, 12, 15, 16, x

There is no appreciably apparent logical pattern in this series except the addition of a decending order of primes (5, 3, 1), but since there is no whole number prime smaller than 1, there IS no next number in that series. Then I thought it could be a series of numbers that all contain two of the letter "e" in their names, but you skipped 13 and 14. So the only thing I can think of is that these are the page numbers in the book "Catcher in the Rye" where the word "Phony" appears, in which case the next page number in the series would be "19".

2) A dump truck is heading north, at the velocity of the speed of light. There is a NW crosswind of 22mph. The dump truck is fully loaded with sand, and has 1/2 a tank of gas. What color is the dump truck?

Shifted Red, if the dump truck were moving away from you, and shifted blue if it were moving toward you, but, of course, as the truck approaches c (the speed of light), its resistance to acceleration (or m -- mass) increases to the point where would take a infinite force to actually reach c, which isn't possible, so the question is moot, as if you didn't know that when you posted this enormously silly IQ test.

3) You meet one of three sisters. You know that one of the sisters always tells the truth, one always lies, and the third tells the truth 50% of the time. What one question could you not ask a sister and not get the incorrect answer?

Your question has a double negative, which pisses me off. But if you're asking for a question that you could ask any sister and be assured of getting an incorrect response, the question would be "Do your sisters lie?", provided, of course, that they would have to answer "Yes" or "No", and not "Sometimes".

4) 2+2=6....please explain how.

If T=3, W=2, O=1, S=6, I=4 and X=2 then adding TWO + TWO would equal SIX, or, 321 plus 321 equals 642. Either that or you're just trying to make me waste my time, which you did. Bastard.


5) You have a friend that has been blind all his/her life. Please explain how you would describe the color fuscia to him/her and actually have him/her understand.

It's as warm as a sun-ripened Georgia peach.

6) Fission versus Fusion. Choose one, and explain why it's better for use in a lawn mower.

Since it's far easier to split atoms than to fuse them I'd use Fission, but I still would be expending more energy to create less energy, unless I were powering a million lawnmovers and a small city at the same time.

7) Which weighs more....100 tons of feathers, or 100 tons of bricks? Which would you rather have fall on you in a perfect vacuum?

They both weigh the same, of course. In a vacuum it wouldn't matter which one "fell" (and I assume we're talking about a vacuum with gravity, relatively like the surface of the moon) on you unless the feathers or bricks were loose and not in a box, so they could spread out around me, as opposed concentrating all their mass onto my body and transfer their energy more efficiently (read: "painfully").

8) If you were traveling down I-35 at the speed of light, at night, and suddenly realized your forgot to turn your headlights on, would it really matter?

No, it wouldn't. The headlights would not shoot out in front of you to show you the road better, and anyone coming the other way and traveling at normal speeds would crash into you at the same time he saw the light. Of course you can't travel at the speed of light, so stop asking me, damn it.

Finished already? Congratulations.

Yeah. Like this took me only ten minutes. I figured that since it wasn't really an IQ test I could do whatever I wanted.

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

Very good DCL....kinda hard to use a pencil on the computer isn't it? hehe

BTW, the pattern 7, 12, 15, 16 is followed by 15....7 x 1 = 7, 6 x 2 = 12, 5 x 3 = 15, 4 x 4 = 16, 3 x 5 = 15

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

God DAMN it...I should have gotten that.

 

[binkley]

I waited 10 minutes... so what's my score?

 

[Aaron26]

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